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The Talisman - Stephen King
EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhamb... -
The Taliban Shuffle_ Strange Da - Kim Barker
FromWar correspondent Barker first started reporting from Afghanistan in 2003, when the war there was lazy and insignificant. She was just learning to navigate Afghan culture, one ... -
The State of Jones - Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, July 2009: Make room in your understanding of the Civil War for Jones County, Mississippi, where a maverick small farmer named ... -
The Stand - Stephen King
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it. Th... -
The Sheen on the Silk - Anne Perry
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Anne Perry's Treason at Lisson Grove and Execution Dock.Arriving in Constantinople in 1273, Anna Zarides vows to prove the innocence... -
The Science of Evil - Simon Baron-Cohen
A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil. -
The Reluctant Nude - Meg Maguire
SUMMARY: Chipping away at her resistance, one touch at a time...Fallon Frost's late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous ... -
The Rabbi of Lud - Stanley Elkin
A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshell The only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that... -
The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox; Jeff Forshaw
The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum ... -
The Princess and the Bear - Mette Ivie Harrison
From School Library JournalGrade 7 Up—This stand-alone sequel to The Princess and the Hound (HarperCollins, 2007) examines and critiques humanity by contrasting animals and people....